Today I had the opportunity to help my daughter set up her classroom for another year of fourth grade.  It brought back a ton of memories.  My favorite part of the school year when I was teaching full time was the initial setting up of the classroom and decorating all the bulletin boards.  Yep, I'm the artistic  type and I wanted the room to be functional and inviting.  I was able to revisit that love today as I made lots of red apples and wrote the names of all Kimberly's students on each one.  There's even a nice, big tree on her bulletin board where all the apples have been attached.

The temperatures have cooled off here in Cleveland where Kimberly and Luke live and it further enhances the thoughts of a new school year complete with buses.  So we head back to Pittsburgh tomorrow after one more trip to the elementary school to put the finishing touches on a great  looking fourth grade classroom.  Mrs. Adkins is almost ready for yet another year of teaching math!  God bless, my friends!